![]() | Red-spotted Delicate | Subidaria Moth Male: profile | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Larentiinae) | ||||
Species: | Subidaria Moth (Epyaxa subidaria) | ||||
This Photo: | Male: dorsal | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Head & body ~9mm, wingspan ~12mm. Males have very obvious bipectinate antennae, where as females are filiform. This genus has 2 distinct forms, one where the whole wing is patterned normally and the other (like this one) where the wing only appears to have half a pattern. It makes it look as though it has 6 wings instead of 4! Very similar to E. sodaliata, but the MoV books tell us the angle of the widest band here is not 90 degrees as in E. sodaliata. One specimen found in September. | |||||
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